The Lost Continent: High Adventure

 I have been running a colonial-era campaign for the last 32 weeks or so based on historical background commencing in 1884 but in a fictional Africa/Asian setting. In otherwords, I have drawn a vast map of a world with actual African and Asian cultures but on a continent of my own creation. This allows me to place all of the non-west into this fictional setting. These native cultures include: Abyssinian, Arabs, Ashanti, Azande, Balluchis, Berbers, Bokharia, Burmese, Cannibals, Chinese, Dahomey, Dervish, Egyptian/Sudanese, Generic African tribes, Gurkha, Ila, Indian, Masai, Matabele, Ngoni, Pathan, Moro, Pygmy, Ruga Ruga, Sikh, Taureg, Turkomen, Western Sudan, Zanzibar, and...Zulu! The list may grow as I continue to locate additonal manufacturers who may supply that 'new' culture. Those creators of the mass lead armies include: Askaris, AW, Blaze Away, Bicorne, Copplestone, Castaway Arts, Dixon, Eureka, Foundry, Indus, Mutineers, Pontoonier, Old Glory, Perry, Pulp, Ral Partha, Redoubt, Tiger, and Perry! We have even used some of my very old (1970s!) Airfix, Revell and other Plastic figures for 'cannon fodder' when necessary.

We have eleven players representing all of the colonial powers: America, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russia, and Spain. They received a start-up budget to purchase men and equipment, given a steamship and a glance at the mapped coastline to select a starting point. To keep things rolling along, we count 6 turns as one year and then the players receive a new budget based on population controlled, resources located, additonal government support, and colonial development. We've seen numerous adventures and 'legendary' conflicts and accomplishments. These have ranged from freeing a missionary family from an immediate cannibal 'cookout'; an unexpected marriage into a local Africa tribal family; a massacre of a European column by hordes of Mongols! The encounters have involved role playing, small engagements of 5-10 minitures to our last major fight that involved some 96 British and native allies vs 240 Azande! It has been great fun and is still on-going. I plan on loading  photos of the miniatures we are using as well as the occasional 'battle'.

The first entry (because I'm have been fevorishly painting up hordes of Indians this last month for a possible upcoming major confrontation) consists of an Indian Army:

Here is our Maharana Zorawar Khanji of Sitapur along with his Silaposh bodyguard. He is in the process of organizing a great confederaton of Moslem and Hindu Princely States to oppose the rising intrusion of Americans, Belgians and Russians (!) (that's right...no Brits!) on their land. 

Above and below we see some of the Maharana's artillery units, including rocketmen!

The following two photos illustrate some of his crack Maratha and Rajput cavalry. This is a good example of how I can use different historical forces since mine is a 'fictional' world and in this case there was no British Raj yet, allowing me to utilize Inidan forces from the early to late 19th Century!

Some of the Maharana's more mundane cavalry:

Oh, and yes there are Elephants but waiting on some riflemen before I post those troops.

Now on to the infantry. First we have a selection of his choice Maratha troops:

Got to have fanatics for any war,so here are some Ghazi's (my Hindus are in the mail):

Well that's it for now. As I said earlier, my goal is to enter example of the entire collection as we move along. Hope all your die rolls are the right ones!